Comments on: Obama Doctrine Is What?

By: Somali pirates, Victor Davis Hanson, Obama, and me « DPGI - the aftermath

Somali pirates, Victor Davis Hanson, Obama, and me « DPGI - the aftermath — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:39:05 +0000

[...] Jules Crittenden has more. [...]

By: jcrue

jcrue — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:21:54 +0000

Obama will allow the military to eliminate three hapless pirates for a single man, but won’t water-board a terrorist who may have information that could affect thousands.

That’s the moral clarity I want in a CinC, the moral clarity that gets Americans killed.

By: Muggins

Muggins — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:19:25 +0000

If there is a plan to hunt pirates, it would be best if it were kept secret. Speculating, it’s doubtful if the FBI or the CIA has any Somalis on their payrolls, and it would not be wise for an Anglo looking dude to show up in those parts. So, with infiltration impossible, any planned assault on a port would have to be some sort of night affair without knowing precisely where to go. The fact that they probably don’t know where all the 250-odd hostages are, let alone who the pirates are (except perhaps the pirates in the latest video threatening US and French seamen), whatever they do has to be limited to the open seas.

By: President Newspeak Wants A Cookie | Social Debate: Barack and American Politics

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:38:40 +0000

[...] left and the press (but I repeat myself) are falling all over each other in their haste to congratulate Obama and his manly response to the pirates. A retch-worthy visit to [...]

By: richard mcenroe

richard mcenroe — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:45:33 +0000

So that American-flagged tug is still being sailed back to Somalia, right? What’s Obama doing about that.

By: Quote of the Day « Sharp Right Turn

Quote of the Day « Sharp Right Turn — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:15:00 +0000

[...] a commenter at JulesCrittenden.com: I’m waiting for Obama to say this is the Navy he “inherited” from George W. [...]

By: Obama “Approved” The Snipers’ Head Shots On The Pirates? « Infidels Paradise

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:18:27 +0000

[...] Jules Crittenden has a nice round-up on the rescue coverage and various [...]

By: GHS159

GHS159 — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:11:50 +0000

whab, try shooting 30 meters from one moving boat to another and tell me how easy it is.

As to Obama, I just wonder who he would have laid the blame on if the whole thing had gone huckle, buckle, bean stock? I always get the sense that his motto is “The Buck Stops Over There, Somewhere”.

By: LocalMan

LocalMan — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:32:32 +0000

The Maersk shipping line has a lot of US Defense Department contracts, that’s why the cargo was on a more-expensive US-flagged ship.

The cargo was going to Kenya, where the US is “intervening” to institute reforms.

Was the cargo military or was it foreign aid?

Was the piracy a coincidence or an attempt to forestall a US coup in Kenya?

By: Hudson

Hudson — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:22:44 +0000

I’m waiting for Obama to say this is the Navy he “inherited” from George W. Bush.